Download e-book for kindle: Mythologies of Transhumanism by Michael Hauskeller

This e-book examines the dependence of transhumanist arguments at the credibility of the narratives of which means within which they're embedded. through taking the major rules from transhumanist philosophy – the desirability of human self-design and immortality, the removal of all discomfort and the growth of human autonomy – Michael Hauskeller explores those narratives and the knowledge of human nature that informs them. specific cognizance is paid to the idea of transhumanism as a kind of utopia, tales of human nature, the expanding integration of the unconventional human enhancement venture into the cultural mainstream, and the force to improve from flesh to machine.

This quantity meets the expanding curiosity in a number philosophical concerns attached with the character and importance of existence and demise, and the ethics of killing. what's it to be alive and to die? what's it to be anyone? What needs to time be like if we're to persist? What makes one existence higher than one other?

This number of essays at the philosophy of affection, by means of major participants to the dialogue, areas specific emphasis at the relation among love, its personality and appropriateness and the gadgets in the direction of which it's directed: romantic and erotic companions, people, ourselves, strangers, non-human animals and paintings.

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